Easter Island is most famous for the hundreds of large carved monolithic statues, known as moai, that were created to represent ancestors by the Rapa Nui people from approximately the ninth to the seventeenth centuries AD.  Photo 3 of 6 in Easter Island's Visitor's Center

Easter Island's Visitor's Center

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Easter Island is most famous for the hundreds of large carved monolithic statues, known as moai, that were created to represent ancestors by the Rapa Nui people from approximately the ninth to the seventeenth centuries AD.